The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes

This historical novel features three strong women linked across time by one extraordinary book. In 1900, Cuban teacher Eva Fuentes travels to Boston as part of the Cuban Summer School at Harvard, an ambitious cultural exchange program. She makes friends, falls in love, and writes a book. In 1966 Havana, librarian Pilar is given the book by her neighbor, who begs her to keep it safe before fleeing Castro’s Cuba. And in 2024 London, a mysterious client hires Margo to track down the only copy of Eva’s novel, and she quickly learns it’s a book some people are willing to kill to get. This pageturner has a little bit of everything: little-known history, mystery, espionage, and family secrets, plus a second chance love story and pervasive love of literature. I picked this up at a moment when I wanted a story I could escape into, and it delivered.